The European Southern Observatory bills its Very Large Telescope array as the world's most advanced optical instrument. Each of the four Unit telescopes, boasting mirrors 27 feet (8.2 meters ...

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This is not an incremental step forward: the Allen Telescope Array was constructed to increase the stellar reconnaissance for artificial signals by orders of magnitude. It is a very large step for ...

New Tarantula Nebula observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are combined with imagery from ...

It is the world’s largest radio telescope array operating at microwave frequencies. It’s also where Jodie Foster heard an alien signal in the 1997 movie “Contact”. But now the Jansky Very Large Array ...

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the future looks bright as radio astronomers prepare for new generations of telescope networks, like the NRAO's ngVLA (next generation Very Large Array) and the ngEHT (The next generation Event ...

An curved arrow pointing right. On April 26, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope achieved “first light” on its new optics system, shooting four lasers into the sky for ...

On 19 December 2018, the Cherenkov Telescope ... are very high-energy electromagnetic radiation emitted by the hottest and most powerful objects in the Universe—such as supermassive black holes, ...